Rex King-Clark

[Mark-1]

Were any Clyde based forumites aquainted with Rex King-Clark? He seems to have sailed a bit on the Clyde, in addition to everything else.

 

[Clyde_Wanderer]

Were any Clyde based forumites aquainted with Rex King-Clark? He seems to have sailed a bit on the Clyde, in addition to everything else.

I now a Rex, but not King Clark.
Where did you dig up the name.
C_W

 

[Grajan]

I now a Rex, but not King Clark.
Where did you dig up the name.
C_W

I knew a Rex Lyons who sailed on the Clyde who was related to the Bose- Lyons? (royal connection) unfortunately passed away this year?

 

[Mark-1]

I now a Rex, but not King Clark.
Where did you dig up the name.
C_W

He was a petrol-head in the 30's. Racing/touring cars & planes. However, he sailed on the Clyde a lot as a child and retired there for 40 years, dying in 2007.

In his book he doesn't say he sailed in his retirement but he had access to CCC sailing Instructions when he wrote his book in '88, so I reckon there's a fair chance he sailed on the Clyde in the 70s & 80s.

 

[Navvy]

Rex King-Clark lived on the Gareloch and had I think a Nantucket Clipper or similar
He was a friend of my father who also won an MC in pre-war Palestine
I remember Rex as a great raconteur and his house as being full of motoring and flying and army memorabilia
Since I was working in the area he asked me to check how the airfields in Thailand and Malaya on which he landed in the late 1930s looked in the 1990s

 

[Mark-1]

Rex King-Clark lived on the Gareloch and had I think a Nantucket Clipper or similar
He was a friend of my father who also won an MC in pre-war Palestine
I remember Rex as a great raconteur and his house as being full of motoring and flying and army memorabilia
Since I was working in the area he asked me to check how the airfields in Thailand and Malaya on which he landed in the late 1930s looked in the 1990s

Thanks for the reply, @Navvy , YBW never fails. Well, worth the 10 year wait. I think the 10 year interval justifies digging the book out for a re-read.